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PDF and SWF extraction information

Copying this information from Xsellize: if anyone is interested in how i get the corporate fonts, well ill explain briefly, although it could be more complicated. It took me forever to figure it out, days!! basically your goal is to get a VECTOR of the font (letters and/or numbers). You can find the vectors in the form of PDFs (brochures/samples), SWFs (flash websites), and EPS/AI/wutever (illustrator type files from brandsoftheworld.com, great site!) once you get the vector, you can copy it into FontLab studio and basically generate the font yourself. where to find PDFs? -> example: porsche.com -> brochures-> pdf, bingo;) to extract the font from PDFs use Fontforge program (ill show u a link later). A problem with pdfs is that you will ONLY GET the glyphs that appeared in the pdf. So if no Q or Z (lets say) appears, than u wont get it. However sometimes u can be creative and make some glyphs yourself. For instance if u have an E or an F than u can get the other easily right? If u have an O or Q u can get the other. Same with N and M and U. if you have an SWF file -> use Action Script Viewer 5.28 (ASV) to extract the embedded TTF(s). This is great because it will always have all the glyphs! (pretty sure 100% of the time) where to find SWFs?-> example: porsche.com -> if the site is done in flash, u could be in luck. Go to the Temporary Internet Files directory, and find all the swfs that came from that site, then copy them to some other folder elsewhere and open each one with ASV and extract the TTFs.

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